Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using Box sealing tape" box sealing tape. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters, street art blog, and Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Brazil and is represented by various galleries including Lazarides Gallery in London. He maintains the Website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process through workshops in the cities that he visits. He conducted a tape casting workshop as part of the Open City Exhibition at Eyebeam Atelier in 2007. He currently lives in Washington, DC.

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Eyebeam announces its long-anticipated 2007 exhibition season and commences its 10th Anniversary year with Open City – a glimpse into the current media and tactics of artists who take their practices into the street. Be it through projection, writing on walls or robotic pamphleteering, Open City presents the work of artists who communicate through the surfaces and structures of our communal spaces and offers a deeper look at the means and motivations of urban action and creativity. Join participating artists for the Opening Reception March 1, 6-8pm to launch this series of screenings, presentations and workshops exploring tool building, tactics, techniques and approaches to communication by any means necessary within the urban context.